Hong Kong police are searching for a foreign domestic worker suspected of abusing an elderly woman, according to local media reports.
In a statement issued on Wednesday night, police said they received a report on March 18 from a woman who said that her 81-year-old mother had been assaulted inside a flat in Lai Tak House, Lai On Estate, in Sham Shui Po.
The alleged attacker, a foreign woman, was said to have assaulted the octogenarian on March 17 and injured her face and hands.
Police listed the case as “assault occasioning actual bodily harm,” and it was passed onto the Sham Shui Po District crime unit for follow-up. No one has been arrested so far.
“Police condemn such violent behaviour… anyone convicted of assaulting other people and causing bodily harm can face up to three years of imprisonment,” the force said in Chinese.
Local media reported on Thursday that the case was linked to an online video shared on March 18, which allegedly showed an Indonesian domestic worker abusing a woman in her 80s for more than 30 minutes.
The 13-minute YouTube video appeared to show the elderly woman – whose face was blurred – lying in bed and the domestic worker standing by the bed.
It went on to show the domestic worker seemingly tying up the elderly woman’s hands with straps and stuffing a towel into her mouth. The elderly woman resisted at times, including by kicking and hitting back at the domestic worker.
It was unclear what was said between the two because the video, which the uploader said was recorded on a home surveillance camera, had no sound.
Sources told local media that the elderly’s daughter found the injuries on her mother’s mouth and hands on March 17 and suspected abuse.
The family later reviewed the security camera footage and fired the domestic worker that evening. They filed a police report the next day.
